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Article: Malcolm Andrews. Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves: Dickens and the Public Readings.(Book review)
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- Dickens Quarterly
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- September 1, 2007
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Malcolm Andrews. Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves: Dickens and the Public Readings. Oxford: OUP, 2006. xiv + 331pp. $ 74.00; 40.00 [pounds sterling]
Settle your extended family, including a cook and a courier, in a splendid Italian Palazzo on a hillside. Look out onto the Mediterranean over terraced gardens filled with flowering shrubs and orange and lemon trees. Occupy rooms whose walls and ceilings are decorated with some of the finest frescoes in the country. Enjoy the company of a small ex-patriot community and entree into the local aristocracy. Might you not think yourself contented, having secured all of this and more at a bargain price? Why, then, ...